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All those layers of silence up...

All those layers of silence upon silence.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

Any action, in the fullness of...

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

There is nothing wrong with th...

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

I hate Gucci,' said Francis. '...

I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry.

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Being the only female in what ...

Being the only female in what was basically a boys' club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn't compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

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And just as music is the space...

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the skyЂ'so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

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Clearly something had gone wro...

Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure whatЂ'apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.

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Caring too much for objects ca...

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. OnlyЂ'if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of thingsЂ'beautiful thingsЂ'that they connect you to some larger beauty?

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

...as we rise from the organic...

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

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It happened in New York, April...

It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.

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When I looked at the painting ...

When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature--fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

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Sometimes it's about playing a...

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

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And the flavor of Pippa's kiss...

And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.

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still when I lost her, I lost...

still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life

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But sometimes, unexpectedly, g...

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

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The storytelling gift is innat...

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

My novels aren't really genera...

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

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When I'm writing, I am concent...

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

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Stay away from the ones you lo...

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.

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Who was it said that coinciden...

Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

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